Sentence examples for the islets from inspiring English sources
The islets are claimed by Beijing, Tokyo and Taipei.
Or that colonies of egrets, ibises and herons crowd the islets by Rikers Island.
I love to snorkel here and regularly stalk octopuses and squid among the islets offshore.
Until a South Korean company recently donated desalinization equipment, the islets had no reliable water supply.
Occasionally, the islets would function for a few weeks, sometimes longer.
So all the islets have become more valuable.
But during the 1990's, they began to suspect that standard anti-rejection drugs like steroids and cyclosporine might be damaging the islets, because the islets sat in the liver, where those drugs become most highly concentrated.
It now only exists on the islets of Champion and its larger (80 hectares) but even less accessible neighbour Gardner.
The islets are known as the Senkakus in Japan, which controls the atoll.
The islets would belong to no specific nation, much like the legal status of the Moon.
